By Andy McInerney, Workers
World, 29 May 1997. Troops surround demonstrating
students and workers. The order comes: The Carter
administration has given the OK. Hours later, after the
tear gas clears, over 2,000 people are dead.

By Colin Donald, Sunday
Herald (Scotland), 21 May 2000. Most Koreans and a
growing number of foreigners know exactly what happened in
Kwangju between May 18 and 27, 1980. The US’s
failure to prevent the Kwangju Massacre of pro-democracy
protesters and bystanders by Korean special forces. Among
the country’s worst Cold War embarrassments.

By Sharon Ayling, Kwangju, south Korea, Workers
World, 30 May 2002. The
Kwangju People’s Tribunal found the U.S. government
guilty of crimes against the people of Korea in relation
to U.S. involvement in the murderous suppression of a
people’s uprising that protested the murderous
assault on a student rally against martial law.